Watergate
Watergate(1994) This Discovery Channel trilogy (A Third-Rate Burglary; The Conspiracy Crumbles; The Fall of the President) is marvelous historical account that covers what All The President's Men skips and skips The Washington Post's catalytic role in the Watergate affair. No professional fiction writer could have conjured up such a preposterous tale in which the president of the United States (POTUS) is the dorky villain in a pot boiler in which:
- A nonsensical attempted burglary, foiled by a piece of tape, triggered a White House cover-up ultimately resulting in POTUS’s resignation and the presidents’ men going to the slammer;
- POTUS’s lawyer delivered $75,000 in a plastic bag to a gum shoe on a park bench near the White House;
- This White House lawyer later commences to sing like a canary, prompting POTUS to finger an ex-U. S. Attorney General (and CREEP Head) as the fall guy;
- This same ex-Attorney General threatens that Katie Graham’s [publisher of The Washington Post] going to get her tit in a big fat wringer if that’s published;
- POTUS bugged himself, and then kept the tapes that became the “smoking pistol’ that terminated his presidency;
- There was a Saturday Night Massacre in which a good-guy Attorney General and his side kick resigned, when they refused POTUS’s order to fire the Watergate Special Prosecutor, who had been subpoenaing POTUS;
- After POTUS resigned to avoid certain impeachment, his successor, a month later, pardoned POTUS for all offenses that he had committed or might have committed.
This whole sordid tale is told in exquisite detail. Also see Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History, which, thirty years later, has presents candid interviews with various of the Watergate characters.
